Rob Ragan
FOUNDING CONTRIBUTOROffensive security researcher and AI agent architect. Founder of Starlog.
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1756 articles
Rob Ragan is an offensive security researcher and AI agent architect who has spent two decades breaking into systems and building tools to automate the process.
// ARTICLES BY ROB RAGAN
Data & Knowledge
PixelRAG: Why This Project Screenshots Wikipedia Instead of Parsing It
★ 1.2k Python Jun 21, 2026
LLM Engineering
The Fragile Economics of Free AI: Mapping the Great Inference Subsidy Wars
★ 696 Jun 20, 2026
AI Dev Tools
Inside the Hidden Instruction Layer: What 43,000 Stars Worth of Leaked AI System Prompts Reveal
★ 43.9k JavaScript Jun 20, 2026
AI Agents
GBrain: The AI-Native Knowledge Base That Tells You What It Doesn't Know
★ 23.5k TypeScript Jun 20, 2026
AI Agents
Why Your AI Coding Agent Keeps Forgetting What It Built: The Five-Subsystem Harness Solution
★ 8.9k TypeScript Jun 20, 2026
AI Dev Tools
mex: How Append-Only Logs and Routing Tables Solve AI Agent Amnesia
★ 942 TypeScript Jun 20, 2026
Cybersecurity
OpenAnt: Why This Open-Source Security Tool Makes LLMs Prove Exploitability Before Crying Wolf
★ 626 Python Jun 18, 2026
LLM Engineering
Shard: Proving LLM Inference Can Work Across Scattered GPUs and Terrible Internet
★ 19 Python Jun 18, 2026
AI Dev Tools
Frfr: Why Pre-Extracting Facts Beats Retrieval for High-Stakes Document Q&A
★ 16 Go Jun 17, 2026
Developer Tools
The Indie Hacker's AI Arbitrage Kit: Inside 50+ Generative SaaS Templates That Treat Code as Commodity
★ 2.1k JavaScript Jun 17, 2026
AI Agents
SkillOpt: Training Prompt Libraries Like Neural Networks for Frozen LLMs
★ 7.6k Python Jun 16, 2026
AI Agents
Inside Visa's Nine-Stage LLM Pipeline for Automated Vulnerability Discovery
★ 407 Python Jun 16, 2026